Communist Art Depicting Che Guevara and Fidel Castro Graces Halls of Library of Congress…
How lovely.
(Weekly Standard) — While the debate about curbing government spending continues, allow me to propose a modest but important cut: the Library of Congress’s Employee Art show. Or can we at least cut out artwork that praises communist revolutionaries?
I was strolling through the halls of the Library’s Madison building — not the magnificent neoclassical Jefferson building across Independence Avenue but its drab, postmodern neighbor — when I came across the corridor containing the employees’ works of art. Most of the items were fairly decent photographs or watercolors, nice contributions to the collection. But in the middle of the hall, I came across this painting, featuring Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
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Mass murders and tyrants as heroes.
How nice.
Can I get this artwork on a t-shirt or maybe a urinal biscuit?
surprised they didn’t have gigantic mao style paintings of obozo
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao next. Really.
Oh yeah, Mao was already on the WH Christmas tree.
This warrants writing your congressman. http://congress.org
216 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS
OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA:
http://www.futurodecuba.org/216_documented_victims.htm
Isn’t that one of those paint-by-numbers kits? I painted one of a horsey.
What the fucking hell is wrong with these people?
Why the Hell is any art work depicting Socialism on the walls of any American establishment?
I can’t believe the nerve some people have. This is an out right disgrace to America and Americans everywhere.
That “artwork” needs to come down and come down now!
Who ever approved that artwork and deemed it worthy of hanging in a Government building needs to be fired and replaced immediately.
This is fucking America and I don’t care how long you socialist Marxist have been working to turn her into a Communist Cuba we are America and we will always be AMERICA.
THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.
Fucking Communist scum…. I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM, AND I HATE THEM.
This is just outright in your face BULLSHIT!!!.
You know what would really make that painting HOT???.
A bottle of Turpentine and a lit match.
@Casual Observer.
that made me laugh out loud. Love this site
Um, wasn’t Castro responsible for Guevara’s murder? What is that, a bomb he’s trying to blow out (up)?
What a pos.
Most art = shit.
Ew! That’s not even good art.
From the article….what is posted under the painting….
and the author of such a disgrace… Julio Berrios…
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Psalm 84:11 (Painting Title)
The verse from the title,Psalm 84:11, is printed in my Catholic Bible thusly: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Perhaps the artist, Julio Z. Berrios, ought to have reconsidered an allusion of such biblical proportions. After all, Che was a “killing machine” who imprisoned and executed Christians, among others,
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This is how liberation theology works…
by taking parts of Roman Catholic religion and
twisting it to fit their narrative….
The very idea that Castro or Che were ever Christians is repulsive…
They are sick killing bastards that epiomize the idea that the State exists to rule over people…
Fucking blood thirsty cowards…
if it wasn’t for Che’s victims having their hands and feet bound…
and being shot in the back of the head…
Che might of actually had to be a man…
but he couldn’t even succeed at that…nothing but a spineless communist…
Che is fucking coward… and anyone who idolizes him is a fucking coward..
@Rob
Agreed!
My caption for this “work of art” is:
“deed you ever smell such a ripe taco fart, fidel”?
whthfk :
You know Communism is a religion of no religion, except a religion of goobermint.
So you could complain and have it removed by the obsurd “religion and State” ban. Use their own tactics against them, that’s what they do to us. Instead of robes they all wear fatigues as their official gown.
what no stalin paintings?
A trbute to the mass murdering enemies of the USA. The employee who created this image should be fired.
I wonder if there were penises on their christmas tree as when clinton was there?
Che had more in common with muhammed. Always found an excuse to be somewhere else when a battle took place. Only murdered people if they were defenseless and unarmed.No wonder they are progressive “heroes”.
THEY SHOULD PUT IT IN THE W.H. RIGHT NEXT TO OBAMA & MICHELLE…..
Gah!
And just think of all the field-trip students who see this and don’t have a clue other than “These folks must be okay because they’re pictured at the Library of Congress.”
Looks like the two of them be lighting up some crack. I agree that this is an insult to all Americans especially those who fought and died to protect us from communism.
Now, if that ‘painting’ were made from elephant dung, that might be some art!
@whthfk:
I was thinking more along the line of an impromptu can of black paint.
@rumplin:
If the penises are bent, then they were definitely the same ones that were in the Clinton White House.
@George Patton:
You, General, are in rare form this evening. I salute you. : )
I stopped supporting the NY Public Library a few years ago when they included insulting characterizations of Bush/Cheney in some artsy fartsy public display. I learned they don’t want to hear that you are offended. It’s ART from an artiste! I’d watch out for gay art too — the artistes know they can get away with anything if they call it art. Remember the elephant poop Madonna and Christ in piss. The Library of Congress would make a great lesson for children in a) the truth and b) how art is used to propogandize.